IIRC the AMD chip which is going into this laptop may not have been completely decided. Would the Transmeta CPU be a good match for that application? Perhaps Microsoft could sell pay as you go software for Linux:)
One way is you store your IP addresses on a server and go to the server when you want the IP address of another machine. Sounds like dynamic DNS or probably 1000 other similar systems for enabling PTP communication.
The other way is to send an email with your IP address in it. Posting your IP address on slashdot isn't covered though so I supose that way is still not patented.
These guys made every mistake in the book. Putting obvious known words in your plaintext "Louisville", "Covington", "enemy" is asking for trouble. There should be a speech code inside the plaintext, one that can be changed from time to time. Use numbers for your places and throw the plan away at the end of the operation.
Given that there was some really good maths being done 137 years ago the crypto these people used is surprisingly poor.
I feel sorry already for the extraterrestrial's SETI programs - they only have a small window of less than a century to grab our raw carrier waves.
I think it was Arthur C Clarke who suggested this as a reason for the failure of SETI. Nobody else is wasting energy by broadcasting either.
I think overall the amount of leakage into space from earth will be greater in the future but it will be so heavily compressed and spread across the available spectrum that it may be confused with noise.
It was on Discovery or something, some show about a search for a particular fish around Australia???
Its obvious that you are not the parent of a four year old boy who has Finding Nemo bath toys and Finding Nemo dvd's and Finding Nemo luggage and Finding Nemo books and Finding Nemo clothing and a Finding Nemo toothbrush, etc, etc.
I suggest you start by committing everything into SVN and using it for yourself
The problem is that in my normal job I am a senior programmer/problem solver/tool builder. In this project I am treated as a junior tech writer too stupid to know how to set fonts correctly in word. I was put there because insights into the coding are really needed but its not working out. Summary: I am in no position to push changes and am currently looking for a better job to do. I do agree with your advice. It's exactly how I would normally operate.
I have been moved on to a new project to develop a user interface in Java. I have java development skills but my job is to write UI specs in word and visio. The developers use SVN for their code and somebody checked the documentation tree (where I and three other engineers work) into SVN.
But the people I work with (systems engineers, in our terminology) rely entirely on windows explorer and email to manage their documents. They have a complex file naming scheme which is always breaking. They have to manually sync with one off site engineer by email. Word locks documents for read/write if it can so you have to ask people to release documents for your control.
I have suggested several times using SVN to manage documents but none of my fellow workers will have a bar of it.
I am not a fan of SVN myself, I prefer totally distributed systems, but in this case it would be the right tool to use.
Was the mudguard repair (I know, no mud on the moon but I refuse to say "fender" like an American) on apollo 17. Maps and sticky tape really came in handy that time.
In industry generally you outsource when you have a large batch of work to do and you don't want to ramp up inhouse. In the software business this generally means finding someone to churn out mountains of code.
The resulting mountains may look good on the monthly sloc metrics but its not what you want to see as an engineer. If a programmer comes back to me and says he made the required changes and produced negative 200 lines of code I would be happy.
One reason that a company like apple might decide not to proceed with something like this is that mass production is not really what they are looking for.
I don't have any problems with India specifically and I think we are going to see more of this situation where the large packages of work, which are less interesting for me anyway, going off shore.
Drilling through ice is a difficult process with lot's of problems.
Its not easy, I agree. Glaciologists I used to work with would drill a hole then drop instruments down it to measure differences in ice flow at different depths. I am sure that eventually a hole would become unusable as shear forces moved it away from vertical.
The RTG powered "mole" devices being planned for Europa might work in this environment. It would certainly be a good test, but developing something like that can take > 10 years.
Erm, you still have to get the fuel up there right?.. and the cost of putting something up there is still reasonably proportional to weight?
Fuel depots make sense for aircraft on Earth because you can use cheap surface transport to deliver the fuel, store it, and then load it into your aircraft when needed.
This might work in space if you have ion powered slow boats to ship the heavy stuff, and fast human carrying vehicles to load up on fuel. But we are not that advanced yet. If we go to mars any time soon it might make sense to launch the cruise stage unmanned and then hook it to the command module in earth orbit. That would be a kind of fuel dump.
They are guessing that it was in the last 250 million years because they can still detect a mass concentration. I wonder if it is possible to drill to the bottom of an ice cap and then drill into the underlying crust. Doing that may make it possible to accurately date the impact.
Ice drills in my experience melt a hollow cylinder of ice and then extract the core. Presumably they would have to do this down to the surface and send a traditional drill down.
The last time I wen to the states (well before 9/11) I felt pretty intimidated also. Since then here in Australia we have had numerous cases of immigrants being treated like animals by our own federal government.
Citizens never have to deal with the part of their Government which only deals with citizens of other countries. As a result there is no real oversight and abuses continue to accumulate.
The funny thing is that I heard a lot of stories about Australians who fly directly into the UK getting a good check before being let into the country but the last time I went to Europe (admittedly 10 years ago) I went first to Dublin, then to London. Getting into Ireland was straightforward, and going to the UK felt like taking a domestic flight with no checks at all.
they put you into a French school where no one speaks (or is allowed to speak) English and supposedly you'll learn French much faster
Two thirds of my co-workers speak French but in seven years working for Thales I haven't picked up a single word. Otherwise I would have to listen to all of the crap spoken around me. French is almost like a cone of silence for me.
Getting back to the keyboard I can understand knowing how to find Q, W, etc. But what about % and &? I always have to look.
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IIRC the AMD chip which is going into this laptop may not have been completely decided. Would the Transmeta CPU be a good match for that application? Perhaps Microsoft could sell pay as you go software for Linux :)
One way is you store your IP addresses on a server and go to the server when you want the IP address of another machine. Sounds like dynamic DNS or probably 1000 other similar systems for enabling PTP communication.
The other way is to send an email with your IP address in it. Posting your IP address on slashdot isn't covered though so I supose that way is still not patented.
These guys made every mistake in the book. Putting obvious known words in your plaintext "Louisville", "Covington", "enemy" is asking for trouble. There should be a speech code inside the plaintext, one that can be changed from time to time. Use numbers for your places and throw the plan away at the end of the operation.
Given that there was some really good maths being done 137 years ago the crypto these people used is surprisingly poor.
I think it was Arthur C Clarke who suggested this as a reason for the failure of SETI. Nobody else is wasting energy by broadcasting either.
I think overall the amount of leakage into space from earth will be greater in the future but it will be so heavily compressed and spread across the available spectrum that it may be confused with noise.
Its obvious that you are not the parent of a four year old boy who has Finding Nemo bath toys and Finding Nemo dvd's and Finding Nemo luggage and Finding Nemo books and Finding Nemo clothing and a Finding Nemo toothbrush, etc, etc.
Yep.
The problem is that in my normal job I am a senior programmer/problem solver/tool builder. In this project I am treated as a junior tech writer too stupid to know how to set fonts correctly in word. I was put there because insights into the coding are really needed but its not working out. Summary: I am in no position to push changes and am currently looking for a better job to do. I do agree with your advice. It's exactly how I would normally operate.
We have that but convincing the non-coding guys that a problem even exists is the real challenge. I am going to lose this one.
Its called TV
I have been moved on to a new project to develop a user interface in Java. I have java development skills but my job is to write UI specs in word and visio. The developers use SVN for their code and somebody checked the documentation tree (where I and three other engineers work) into SVN.
But the people I work with (systems engineers, in our terminology) rely entirely on windows explorer and email to manage their documents. They have a complex file naming scheme which is always breaking. They have to manually sync with one off site engineer by email. Word locks documents for read/write if it can so you have to ask people to release documents for your control.
I have suggested several times using SVN to manage documents but none of my fellow workers will have a bar of it.
I am not a fan of SVN myself, I prefer totally distributed systems, but in this case it would be the right tool to use.
Its just not used at all here in Australia. I was just having a dig.
I have to say I am surprised. I am sure we have it here in Australia.
Here in Konqueror 3.3.0-8 it looks much the same as it does in Firefox.
Was the mudguard repair (I know, no mud on the moon but I refuse to say "fender" like an American) on apollo 17. Maps and sticky tape really came in handy that time.
You should read Diaspora by Greg Egan.
...on the GhostBusters.
In industry generally you outsource when you have a large batch of work to do and you don't want to ramp up inhouse. In the software business this generally means finding someone to churn out mountains of code.
The resulting mountains may look good on the monthly sloc metrics but its not what you want to see as an engineer. If a programmer comes back to me and says he made the required changes and produced negative 200 lines of code I would be happy.
One reason that a company like apple might decide not to proceed with something like this is that mass production is not really what they are looking for.
I don't have any problems with India specifically and I think we are going to see more of this situation where the large packages of work, which are less interesting for me anyway, going off shore.
Its not easy, I agree. Glaciologists I used to work with would drill a hole then drop instruments down it to measure differences in ice flow at different depths. I am sure that eventually a hole would become unusable as shear forces moved it away from vertical.
The RTG powered "mole" devices being planned for Europa might work in this environment. It would certainly be a good test, but developing something like that can take > 10 years.
Fuel depots make sense for aircraft on Earth because you can use cheap surface transport to deliver the fuel, store it, and then load it into your aircraft when needed.
This might work in space if you have ion powered slow boats to ship the heavy stuff, and fast human carrying vehicles to load up on fuel. But we are not that advanced yet. If we go to mars any time soon it might make sense to launch the cruise stage unmanned and then hook it to the command module in earth orbit. That would be a kind of fuel dump.
They are guessing that it was in the last 250 million years because they can still detect a mass concentration. I wonder if it is possible to drill to the bottom of an ice cap and then drill into the underlying crust. Doing that may make it possible to accurately date the impact.
Ice drills in my experience melt a hollow cylinder of ice and then extract the core. Presumably they would have to do this down to the surface and send a traditional drill down.
The last time I wen to the states (well before 9/11) I felt pretty intimidated also. Since then here in Australia we have had numerous cases of immigrants being treated like animals by our own federal government.
Citizens never have to deal with the part of their Government which only deals with citizens of other countries. As a result there is no real oversight and abuses continue to accumulate.
The funny thing is that I heard a lot of stories about Australians who fly directly into the UK getting a good check before being let into the country but the last time I went to Europe (admittedly 10 years ago) I went first to Dublin, then to London. Getting into Ireland was straightforward, and going to the UK felt like taking a domestic flight with no checks at all.
Such a waste of an expensive keyboard: to smash it into a star.
I keep my mouse on the left and remap the buttons. Oh and Button3 on the title bar in fvwm does window close.
People know not to touch my workstation.
Two thirds of my co-workers speak French but in seven years working for Thales I haven't picked up a single word. Otherwise I would have to listen to all of the crap spoken around me. French is almost like a cone of silence for me.
Getting back to the keyboard I can understand knowing how to find Q, W, etc. But what about % and &? I always have to look.
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